caught on camera. security scam ras roll as innocent bus passengers survive a roll of bullets. an airborne race car falls directly at a cameraman. a pilot runs out of fuel and crash lands in the pacific. >> at those speeds, it's like hitting a brick wall. a powerful tornado. >> it's throwing 18 wheelers. this is something i have never seen before. >> target a small town. devastating everything in their

path. and a terrorist's bomb blows up a bar. >> i was laying in a puddle of beer and blood and broken glass. this is the closest i've ever come to death. >> fighting for survival. caught on camera -- life or death. a 1800 horsepower race car, going well over 100 miles an hour, loses control. spewing sparks and flames, it goes flying, straight toward a cameraman who stands paralyzed. april 20, 2012. bristol, tennessee. the drag way, best known as

thunder valley, hosts the american drag racing league's top sportsman's race. >> they go about 170 miles per hour and about 4.10 seconds. it's pretty crazy. >> meet 21 year old drag race driver lizzy. >> the feeling sitting in my car, even warming it up -- i love warming it up in the morning. i love it. >> and when she lines up to start. >> you stage, you've got two sets of bulbing up thayer. the both amber lights come on, i have a button, and you let go of it. once you see the amber light go on, you react real quick. and then you floor it. and then it just launches on the last amber. >> lizzy's qualifying run earlier in the day in herbie loved blue camaro goes off

without a hitch. she's interviewed by the track's cameraman. >> that was fun. >> yeah. looks fun. >> had a great time. >> good deal. >> but in lizzy's first official race of the day, things go wrong in a hurry. >> felt the car a little bit jarring to the right. and it just took a hard left and kind of went from there. i won't forget that one second of it just because everything started slowing down. then i felt the car lift up. and i see the wall, like and sparks flying. i didn't know ar's this car going to go? flip over? i just had to brace for impact, wait until it comes to a stop. once it came on its four-wheels again and i just felt relieved. >> are you okay, dude? are you okay, girl? >> and bummed. because i wanted to continue

racing that race. and i'm thankful the car actually lifted up that way, because i could have hit right into that wall and it could have been real, really bad. >> in spite of becoming airborne, lizzy walks away without a bruise. >> that sucks. >> are you okay? >> yeah. i'm more than okay. but it's lort. >> how's the adrenaline level? >> booming. sucks. >> don't be mad, dude. you're in one piece. >> but she doesn't realize that the cameraman who's interviewing her, narrowly escaped with his life just moments earlier. >> holy -- >> only time i saw him is when he came running up to me. i was like how is he getting here so fast. >> what the heck? no way. >> caught on camera arranged a reunion for the driver and the cameraman who's lucky to be

alive. >> there's something saucy about a chick swinging a car at you, brother. >> michael hester, nicknamed renter, is a veteran freelance photographer who works the drag race circuit. >> i hopped the wall and grabbed a second camera. and it's kind of a seamless thing. >> watch another angle as the car flies at grinner, covering him with sparks and flames, it's almost inconceivable how he doesn't get crushed. >> that was close! >> he holds his camera steady until the very last second. >> you know, just standing there like i was hypnotized, thinking what -- >> i'm looking at the screen. i'm looking at composition. i hate to say that, but carnage is the money shot in our world. we hate wrecks, but tv loves it.

that's why the spectators come. that's what i was thinking. what a shot! and then i realized i was part of it. and then i realized i had to do something about it. >> but you still have to wonder. why didn't he move away earlier? >> you know, hindsight's 20/20. should i have gone sooner? yeah, i'll give you that. you know, but i didn't know where she was going. she was on the wall, man. typically, they'll hit the wall and bounce off. so my framing didn't change. >> it went on by you, like right over here. >> just jump and roll. >> these dudes were cracking me up. he was you were like jackie chan. you did a tuck and roll. >> while it's easy to joke, it is a life or death moment not to be taken lightly. >> are you okay, brother? >> okay. that was a chose man, man.

>> had i laid down where i was, i'd have eaten those wheelie bars. >> the wheelie bars are those metal bars attached to the back of the race car to help keep the car on ground. >> if that could scrape its nails at you, and the sparks were coming at me, this went from like this is really cool to this sucks like bam! >> despite the close call, grinner walks away with nothing more than a scraped knee. >> that's a day at the office for me. that's not a deterrent. that's a high that i get. >> i had been asked about are you going to get back in the car again? are you going to race after that? it's a passion i have. and it's, i want to just continue doing, i love it. >> i've cheated death, honestly, more than anyone i've ever talked to. i'm not a hugely religionous

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in an instant, life changes. >> oh, my gosh, dude. it's headed right for us, pretty much. >> oh, my gosh. tornado on the ground. tornado on the ground. >> oh, it's throwing 18 wheelers. this is something i have never seen before. >> oh, my -- holy -- >> in 2012, a series of powerful storms decimates 14 states. >> in the plains and parts of

the midwest, this is a day of recovery after a violent weekend. >> more than 100 tornados touchdown in the midwest. one of the most violent and destructive hits the small town of henryville, indiana. with winds up to 175 miles per hour. march 2nd, 2012. 21 year old brett adams grabs his smartphone and starts to record. >> that's most insane thing i've ever seen in my life. >> my adwr dwredrenaline was go i didn't really think about -- it seemed like it was a little bit of distance away, but not close enough to be dangerous. >> a rural community of fewer than 2,000 people. henryville has one four-way stop, one gas station and eight

churches. when the tornado warning sounds, not everyone is concerned. >> my mother's texting me, and she was telling me there's going to be severe weather. and i just kind of blew it off, didn't think anything of it. >> neither does the teacher at perriville, high school. >> we knew that there was a chance for bad weather, but we get these warnings quite often in the spring. >> coming right toward henryville. >> just a few miles away, perry's aunt, la nora and his uncle listen to the tornado warnings on television. >> you've got to be taking shelter now, portions of crawford county because this is moving through your area with a tornado on the ground. >> we were watching out the living room window, that's why i said it looks kind of wicked over there. it's coming over here. >> and we realized it was going to hit henryville. we both had little cameras that

could you take video or snapshots. we just like doing that. we were always fascinated with the sky. we just always took pictures. >> it looks like it's heads right towards us. >> yep, maybe we should get away from the window? >> it looked like it was so far away when i looked at the videos. >> i'm going to close the door. oh, my gosh. tornado on the ground. tornado on the ground! >> before they know it, the tornado is upon them. lien nora and wayne huddle together in a room with no windows, in the safest part of their house and cover themselves with a blanket. the couple has no idea how things will turn out. >> he said i love you. and i said i love you too. then immediately we both said my ears are popping. it was like at the same time. >> what starts as a fascination with the stormy sky is now a take russ life or death struggle for survival. lien nor yeah blacks out. >> maybe i remember kind of

being lifted, but i don't remember anything until i woke up then. >> on the other side of town, lien nora's nephew, perry, helps release kids from the high school 15 minutes early. 1200 children from kindergarten to high school. but one bus released early is trapped by the storm. the driver turns around and races 11 young elementary school students back to the school. they describe their terrifying trip recorded on the bus security camera. >> another bus driver came over the video and said i see the tornado on the ground. there's a bunch of little kids crying. it was kind of scary. then we ran into the school. me and my mom were the last ones off. >> they get off the bus just in time. because seconds later, with the cameras still rolling, it's picked up and slammed into a diner.

meanwhile, footage from the school's security system shows what happens in the high school where about 80 adults and children are hunkered down in school offices and a closet. >> the lights went out and then there was a loud explosion from the gym imploding. i hit the ground, and we heard the school rattling for about ten seconds. and stuff starts being pulled out of the gym. it's 175-mile-per-hour wind. i ran around to the front of the school, and it was completely gone. >> chaos and damaging hail followed. many in henryville lose everything. but they regroup and start over, knowing it may be a long road back before life returns to normal. >> i've talked to a few people who are really struggling with

anxiety from the whole situation. and i'm one of them. it's not something i want to experience again. >> while some in town are scarred from the experience, no one suffers a loss like lien nora, her husband wayne, a retired emergency room nurse is found crushed in their home. he dies from his injuries. he's the one person killed in henryville during the tornado. >> at 59, you never think you're going to be a widow. you just don't think that it will happen to you. >> lien nora and her family are devastated, and her house destroyed, but she plans to rebuild and install a tornado proof basement on the land she treasured with her husband. >> i'm going to make him proud. people should cherish the time that they have. live it like it's your last. c carpe diem, he would say.

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on a warm afternoon in philadelphia, a mundane ride on a public bus erupts in gunfire. it looks like a scene from an action film. but this is no movie. these men really do open fire on a bus full of passengers. >> i did not want to die that day. >> june 18, 2011. scared passengers, including this elderly woman, standing directly in the line of fire do their best to dodge bullets and stay alive. >> it was a mid afternoon saturday. i'd say like around 4:00 or 5:00. >> desmond jones is a veteran resident and driver for septa. when he starts his shift on that

sunny spring day, he's in for a shock, captured on a bus equipped with eight security cameras. it all starts when this mother and her young son get on a bus and run into another passenger. >> as the bus winds its way through the philadelphia streets, picket notices the little boy. >> he was running up and down the aisle. >> picket says he hears the mom tell her son to sit down. >> and she began spanking him like he was some kind of animal. >> picket leans forward and reprimands the mom. >> i said he's a child, let him be a child. you shouldn't be spanking him like that. if you continue to do that, i'm going to turn you in nor child endangerment. she was like you don't know me. this is my son. ly deal with him any way i choose to. >> for whatever reason, he offers his unsolicited parenting

advice saying he's just a little boy, that's child abuse. >> this philadelphia native is a veteran staff writer for the philadelphia inchoir ear. over the course of his career covering court cases he thought he'd seen it all until i watches the footage captured that day by septa security cameras. >> she is seen making a phone call, she turns, says something to mr. picket. the bus stops, the side door opens and she exits. >> the call is to her friends who are now waiting at her stop. she's told them about her confrontation with mr. picket. and they're armed and ready for action. >> it looked like at first he was helping her get off. but i notice when he seemed to grab her, i knew something was wrong. >> septa security footage captures exactly what's belong, in stunning detail. >> as she's exiting, another young man is coming toward the

bus, and she says something to him. from what the prosecutor said, she pointed out mr. picket and said i want you to shoot that guy. >> as the mom and her son get off, one man goes in the front door and gestures for everyone to come to the front steps. meanwhile, his friend is bus eye pulling out a huge rifle he's had hidden down the leg of his pants. soon he's joined by the man from the front of the bus had pulls out his own semi-automatic pistol, and they open fire. >> just absolute pandemonium in that bus. these people are terrified. you see them racing to the front of the bus, hoping they're going to escape there. they see a gunman out the front door. they're all filed up in the stairwell. it's just utter panic. >> as bullets rip through the bus, picket climbs on the bus driver, trying to escape the firestorm. >> they're targeting mr. picket

inside the bus, but targeting is a very loose word in this characteristic because essentially what they're doing is spraying the bus. >> i was just so scared for my life. i've been shot before. i know what bullets feel like. i did not want to die that day. >> the footage then shows a terrifying moment as an elderly woman stands frozen in the middle of the aisle. >> she hears the gunfire, apparently, and bends down, and a shot goes through the window, hits a seat right next to her. >> desmond jones takes his first opportunity to speed away. >> had she been seated upright, it would have gone through her at first. >> the woman is lucky to be spared after a total of nine bullets are fired into the bus. throughout the ambush, jones, an army veteran keeps his cool. >> passengers pretty much hit the deck. they knew what to do. i just took us to the nearest

hospital. at the time, no one was hurt, but i was taught, let the paramedics sort them out. >> desmond operated according to his training. as a member of the military, he took control of the situation. that bus is flying. he's radioed his dispatcher so police are meeting him. literally calm under fire. he had a sense of responsibility of his passengers. >> as jones drives away, the gunmen, cousins, run away. the men are arrested two weeks later and plead guilty to chargesing including 11 counts of aggravated assault and attempted murder. they are sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. the mother also pleads guilty to charges including attempted mur dper and is sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison. >> to this day i don't know why penny chapman did what she did.

maybe she didn't think it would go to that level. >> regardless of the provocation, it's hard to justify having your friends come over and strafe a bus. the fact that these guys fire shots into this bus and didn't hit a single person is probably as close to a miracle as i can think of. coming up. a night out on the town turns deadly. >> i was laying in a puddle of beer and blood and broken glass. this is the closest i've ever come to death. >> when caught on camera -- life or death -- continues. alert.

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winds, the rim fire is just 10% contained at this point. it's now more than 200 square miles, roughly covering an area the size of chicago. now back to caught on camera. five long years of relentless palestinian israeli violence. from 2000 to 2005 leaves a legacy of terror, destruction and death. throughout the second uprising. >> it happened again today, another suicide bomber in israel, this one killed 17 people. >> suicide bombers attack israelis in public places. >> bodies scattered on the highway in northern israel today. >> often on crowded buses. >> some burned to death, including a man and woman whose bodies were found in a final embrace. >> the israeli army retaliates,

but the bloodshed continues. june 11, 2003, another terrorist strikes on a crowded bus in jerusalem. this woman is on board. >> they were standing two feet away from me. >> she moved to israel after the 9/11 attacks to work with victims of terrorism. she's on her way to meet a friend when she's caught in this suicide attack near her new home. >> i felt a huge shock wave hit my face, and the only way it feels is like two pieces of metal that hit so close to each other and vibrate back that's how i remember my face feeling. after the blast, when it stops, there's a split second of silence. and it's not the silence that you hear outside in the summertime when the crickets are out. it's literally the silence of death all around you. once the silence stopped, my

ears started ringing very, very loud. and i started screaming. >> from her hospital bed, she makes a statement. >> if i leave, if i'm afraid, the palestinians win. >> i had shrapnel that went through my shoulder, breaking my clavicle bone. both my eardrums were blown. my legs were badly cut up. my hair was burned. my face was burned and bruised. >> she stays in the hospital for more than a week. but she knows she's lucky. >> if i hadn't taken that seat next to the window, i definitely wouldn't be here. because everyone who was seated and standing around me did not survive the attack. >> 16 people are killed that day. more than 100 others injured. just six weeks earlier, 50 miles away in tel aviv, another bomb goes off. >> how can they do this? how can they do this?

>> april 30, 2003. just after midnight. seconds after an explosion. >> i was laying in a puddle of beer and blood and broken glass. this is the closest i've ever, i've ever come to death. >> when the blast goes off, filmmaker jack baxter is finishing up a shoot on his documentary called blues by the beach about this unique bar in tel aviv. >> we started doing the documentary about mike's place. the waitresses, the bartenders. to try to get that perspective, pretty much stay out of the politics. >> i want you all to take care of all the people here in the house, the waitresses, the bartenders. this is a song about freedom. >> mike's place is a bar where people come to escape the tension of a country too often

torn apart by terrorism. the bar has an international feel, nearly everyone speaks english. and talk being about politics and religion is discouraged. >> a good bartender knows how to get out of it. a good line is are we still talking about sex. >> he has chosen this bar as the subject of his documentary to show how israelis are coping with the violence. >> one eye, second eye. >> over the course of just two weeks, jack has become close friends with the owner, bar tnders and the security man and dominique, a 24 year old waitress from france who has dreams of opening her own pastry shop. >> she really affected me, and i guess the film shows what she's like. >> if things are going well, i see myself maybe opening my own coffee shop thing or styling

cakes to half of tel aviv. buying my cakes. >> it's jack's last night in israel. he's having a beer outside. saying his good-byes. >> dominique was next to me. that's when one of the suicide bombers came up and tried to get in place. >> oddly, the security guard has a bad feeling when the man walks up. >> the guy was a little bit too quick in his pace. suicide bombings were going on all the time at that particular time. so we both looked at each other. and froze. >> he is strapped with plastic explosives, when he is kicked in the chest to keep him from entering the crowded bar. >> and the next thing i can barely remember is this guy, you know, stepping back up onto the sidewalk and yelling alaw akbar. >> the explosion sends jack

flying into the front window. >> the next thing i know, i'm in the hospital, and it's three days later. >> these hurt? it's going to be fine. you saved a lot of people's life that night. >> he is critically wounded but is hailed as a national hero. >> who knows how many people would have been killed in that small space. so he saved, you know, literally a hundred lives. >> why mike's place? >> well, i think mike's place represents the best that this part of the world has to offer. >> just weeks earlier, the suicide bombers at mike's place record this video about their plan to kill as many as possible. >> the real terrorists are these israelis. they're really sickos.

it's a great honor to kill one of these people. it's a great honor. >> jack's burned face heals. but he still suffers from some of his other injuries. >> frank and jack, partially paralyzed right down the middle. i also had both my eardrums blown out. i had two operations on that, you know, they grafted a piece from my neck into my ear. >> two musicians playing that night, and dominique, the french waitress that was sitting right next to jack, are killed. another 55 people are injured. the second suicide bomber, inexplicably disappears before achieving his goal. >> dropped his bomb belt, and he took off. and there was a big man hunt in israel. he was found 12 days later, floating in the port of tel

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an airplane flying over the pacific has run out of fuel and is about to go down. >> it's a very dangerous scenario. >> it's called ditching in flight lingo, and in this precarious life or death situation, it's anybody's guess if the pilot, who is the only person on board, will survive. the flight brings back memories of the miracle on the hudson in january 2009 when a bird strike knocks out both engines on u.s. airways flight 1549. amazingly, all 155 passengers and crew on board survive. but no one can guarantee an outcome as smooth as this textbook landing. friday october 7, 2011, the pilot of this cessna 310 twin-engine plane radios a distress call. he's just more than halfway through a 2300 mile flight to

hawaii when he realizes he's low on fuel and desperately needs help. u.s. coast guard pilot is called in to intercept the cessna and coordinate a rescue. >> we took off to escort the pil pilot. >> they are dispatched from hawaii. this long-range search and rescue plane is equipped with state-of-the-art cameras housed in this dome attached below the nose of the airplane. operators from inside the plane can zoom in and track vessels and planes from miles around. once he reaches the distressed pilot, they're still 350 miles off the coast. >> we found him for about an hour and a half. >> and it's still unclear if the cessna will make it to land. >> i did not think that he was going to make it, based on what he was telling us with the amount of fuel that was in his

tanks and the speed he was getting. i knew it was going to be close. >> after flying side by side for 90 minutes, it becomes obvious he's not going to make it. but will the pilot survive the crash into the open seas? >> it's a very dangerous scenario. luckily, his type of airplane is capable of flying very slow. it's very light. it really is the ideal type of airplane to ditch into the water. >> he gives the pilot instructions on how best to ditch the plane. >> the big items were making sure his wings were level, his rate of descent was minimized and his airspeed was correct when entering the water. we had him put on his life jacket. had him brace for impact and we had him jettison the emergency escape hatch to he could exit quickly. >> but if things don't go exactly as planned. >> the plane can end up falling apart. >> if that happens, the pilot is

in far greater danger of being seriously injured or killed. the pilot prepares for a crash landing. just 13 miles from land, it hits the water hard. >> it's like hitting a brick wall. so it's a very abrupt. you can see in the video, too, he makes a sharp, almost 180 gree turn at the end. it's a violent throwing forward scenario. >> it's a tense moment as the spray from the impact settles, it reveals the first good sign. the plane has not broken into pieces, but there's no more radio communication from the pilot, and the plane won't stay afloat for long. rescue choppers are now racing towards the aircraft which is bobbing in the swells. as he and his crew stay on site and circle the wreck, they hope for the best. then after about 25 seconds, you can see the pilot crawling out

of the jettisoned hatch. he stands on the wing of his crippled cessna to wait for help. >> the helicopter was on scene, ready for the pickup. >> the coast guard helicopter arrives and a rescue swimmer drops into the choppy water. >> it actually only took seven minutes from the plane entering the water until the helicopter hoisted the man into the helicopter. >> watch as the basket leaves the water with the pilot secured inside. >> the rescue swimmer holds onto the basket and drags his fins a little bit to try to stabilize it as it goes up to the helicopter. >> once the rescued pilot and the coast guard swimmer are both safe inside the helicopter, it's mission accomplished and the lieutenant stays on scene just long enough to watch the cessna disappear. >> the plane had sunk about ten, 15 minutes after it entered the water. so it was a very good thing that the helicopter was on scene at the time.

>> the pilot is uninjured but shaken up and taken to an area hospital. >> he was very grateful that when he said just seeing the plane, when we established a formation up on him and to escort him in, he really knew he had a lot of support. >> but perhaps the luckiest coincidence for both pilots is a training session that rehearsed this exact life or death ditching scenario less than 24 hours earlier. >> one of the specific scenarios we were training for was a small airplane running out of gas and falling short of the hawaiian island chain. and the next day we had that exact scenario take place. >> and for a coast guard pilot, it's a proud moment when all the training and preparation is put to the test. >> it's very rewarding especially when you see a scenario that you've practiced before. that's when it all comes together. coming up. one man's terror. >> we'll try to put you down to the dirt spot right to the left

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july 1994, a day at the beach on the pacific northwest coast goes all wrong when a swimmer starts a perilous climb up this cliff. he is hanging out on a deserted cove when the tide comes in and blocks the beach access out. to get to dry land, he tries climbing up and over the face of a 200 foot cliff, wearing just shorts and sneakers. he gets about 150 feet above the rocky shoreline when he panics and freezes. clutching to the side of the mountain. what starts out as a relaxing day trip is now a life or death rescue mission, a four man team

from the u.s. coast guard is called and leaves its station in astoria, oregon. >> we start off with the aircraft commander, the co-pilot, the flight mek and the rescue swimmer. >> they get to the scene in just a few minutes. the flight mechanic and rescue swimmer assess the situation to come up with a plan. >> basically looking at the situation they have on the cliff they're making the decision on how to position the rescue swimmer and how to get him from point a to point b and ultimately to point c where the victim is. >> you want me to put you down in the dirt spot right to the lett of him? >> put me down there if that's kosher and i'll walk about five feet below the guy. walk over, come up underneath him. >> all right. no problem. >> super. >> we're ready for a direct deployment of the swimmer.

>> they execute a technique called a direct deployment. in this case, the rescue swimmer will never get closed to the water. he'll stay tethered and make his way slowly to the stranded climber, as he's lowered into the position, the pilot is conscious of the wind generated by the helicopter blades which can be enough to blow the climber right off his precarious perch. >> we want to put the rescue swimmer to either side of the vek till and slightly below the victim on the cliff. >> the man has been clutching to the cliff for two hours when the swimmer makes contact well below him. scared and exhausted, his hands have practically gone numb from holding on. >> easy forward. easy forward. right five feet. he's trying to put the drop around. your fish is good.

>> finally, with a strap around the stranded climber, the rescue swimmer gives his pilot the signal to pull away from the cliff. >> prepare to take the load. i have taken the load. left 50 feet. >> we want to get away from the cliff as safe and as quick as possible. we want to get the rescue swimmer and the victim over the water in case anything was to happen. >> bringing the swimmer up. swimmer's just below the aircraft. swimmer's just outside the door. looming in. looming in. >> safe inside the helicopter, it takes just a few minutes to land nearby. tired and dirty, this cliff-hanger has a happy ending. while most people try to avoid these type of life or death situations, some actually seek them out, flirting with danger at death defying heights.

>> you have to find your own way through it from point a to point b. >> this is 24 year old man from austria. he travels the world to places like yosemite park. he is one of only two people ever to conquer taft point without a safety harness. a 99 foot walk on a 1-inch thick nylon rope. 6900 feet over yosemite valley. remember, this is without any safety gear. >> woo! >> he is considered one of the world's best high-line slack liners, both with and without a safety harness. >> the feel something amazing. because you control yourself. and if you lose focus, it's getting dangerous. >> slack lining has been around for decades.

this video from 1938 in india shows a man balancing on a loose, bouncy rope, hence the name slack line. these days, the line that is walked is more taut, and he takes the sport to new heights. once the nylon rope is stretched and anchored, he get does work. he makes it look easy, but make no mistake, it's not. even for members of his entourage who all use a harness. he keeps his fear of falling in check. >> fear's not good. you don't know how to control fear? it's becoming way more dangerous. >> green lake austria, he travels a distance world record,

525 foot walk over the icy cold green lake. >> it's really cold. it's about 45, 48 degrees. >> it's the longest slack line ever attempted in europe. getting past the midway, the lowest point on the line, is the hardest. >> you have to like control your breathing, your body. hear into yourself, your mind is collecting like so deep is your muscles, everything. you feel the energy. >> also in austria, a walk 12,000 feet high, through the clouds across two of the highest peaks in europe. for most people, it's plain and simple, terror. but for him, it's just a warmup. back in the u.s., he craves a tougher challenge and finds it.

like in oregon's monkey face, another successful ramble without the aid of any kind of safety harness. >> i think high-lining is less dangerous than driving a car. >> this daredevil doesn't just walk from one end to the other. when he gets close to the other side, he does his signature move. kneeling on the line, he puts his hands together as if praying and actually shuts his eyes. >> it's praying like this and close my eyes for like one second. it's an amazing feeling. it's i just want to say thank you. >> it's inconceivable for most of us, and yet, even in near darkness, he is completely unfazed. >> i got it! yeah! woo! yeah, buddy. >> there's more to life. you know.

it's just those little moments. terrifying, dangerous, explosive situations. split second dilemmas. a house on fire. >> the flames come through that window like they belonged to the house, but i didn't. >> a car out of control. >> i knew i was probably going to die. a downed sightseeing plane. an abduction in broad daylight. >> it looked like she was fighting for her life. >> witnesses must decide whether or not to intervene at their own risk. >> i've got to think quick before this guy